Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 238 329
Rank change year-on-year -116 +91 -25
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 565 670 662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.50% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 258 283 362
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,250 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -99 500 £60,000 -14.34% 1,057
London -16 318 £66,771 -16.54% 729
Work from Home +8 223 £60,000 -9.77% 448
UK excluding London -205 189 £60,000 -4.00% 421
North of England -44 55 £65,250 -3.33% 99
South East -157 36 £38,500 -38.40% 108
North West -3 35 £85,000 +30.77% 55
Midlands -35 29 £45,000 -25.00% 61
South West -85 26 £68,528 +14.21% 45
East of England -22 25 £63,750 -13.27% 44
West Midlands -19 22 £50,000 -16.67% 42
Yorkshire -36 18 £57,500 -20.69% 31
Scotland +2 12 £77,500 -4.62% 41
East Midlands -26 7 £37,500 -46.04% 19
Wales -64 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
Northern Ireland -77 3 - - 16
North East - 2 £90,000 - 13

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (5.49%) Confluence
2 15 (2.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.12%) CMS
4 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Drupal
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (9.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.71%) Moqups
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (6.90%) Workfront
2 7 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.71%) Shopify
4 3 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.35%) iTrent
5 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Eikon
6 1 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.18%) RMDS
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 83 (14.69%) SaaS
2 81 (14.34%) AWS
3 54 (9.56%) Azure
4 53 (9.38%) iPaaS
5 20 (3.54%) GCP
6 16 (2.83%) Google Workspace
7 14 (2.48%) Figma
8 13 (2.30%) GitHub
8 13 (2.30%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.06%) Asana
11 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.71%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (0.71%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.71%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.80%) Broadband
2 31 (5.49%) HTTP
3 10 (1.77%) WAN
4 7 (1.24%) Firewall
4 7 (1.24%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.06%) LAN
6 5 (0.88%) Network Security
7 4 (0.71%) Multicast
7 4 (0.71%) NGN
7 4 (0.71%) SAN
8 3 (0.53%) Intranet
8 3 (0.53%) MPLS
8 3 (0.53%) VSAT
8 3 (0.53%) WLAN
9 2 (0.35%) DNS
9 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.35%) Skype
9 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (9.73%) Metadata
2 12 (2.12%) Power BI
3 8 (1.42%) Big Data
4 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.35%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (9.38%) JIRA
2 10 (1.77%) Git
3 9 (1.59%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.24%) Selenium
5 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.71%) JUnit
6 4 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) TestNG
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) GitLab
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 183 (32.39%) Marketing
1 183 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 174 (30.80%) Finance
3 93 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (15.93%) Law
5 88 (15.58%) Banking
6 81 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (10.44%) Presentation Skills
7 59 (10.44%) Retail
8 43 (7.61%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (5.31%) Legal
10 28 (4.96%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (3.72%) Manufacturing
13 17 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.30%) Back Office
14 13 (2.30%) Italian Language
15 12 (2.12%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.95%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 157 (27.79%) Product Manager
2 81 (14.34%) Lead
3 73 (12.92%) Product Owner
4 71 (12.57%) Senior
5 44 (7.79%) Software Engineer
6 37 (6.55%) Senior Manager
7 32 (5.66%) Development Engineer
7 32 (5.66%) Senior Product Manager
7 32 (5.66%) Software Development Engineer
8 29 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (3.36%) Product Lead
10 17 (3.01%) Consultant
11 16 (2.83%) Development Manager
11 16 (2.83%) Technical Manager
12 15 (2.65%) Developer
12 15 (2.65%) Platform Manager
13 13 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (2.30%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.30%) Technical Product Manager
14 12 (2.12%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.55%) REST
2 15 (2.65%) Google Maps API
3 14 (2.48%) React
4 10 (1.77%) HTML
5 8 (1.42%) LangChain
5 8 (1.42%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.42%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.06%) CSS
6 6 (1.06%) Pandas
6 6 (1.06%) Spring
7 5 (0.88%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.71%) CrewAI
8 4 (0.71%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.71%) LangGraph
8 4 (0.71%) LlamaIndex
8 4 (0.71%) Node.js
8 4 (0.71%) NumPy
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.71%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 190 (33.63%) Product Ownership
2 66 (11.68%) Social Media
3 54 (9.56%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (9.56%) Over-the-Top Content
4 37 (6.55%) Cloud Native
5 36 (6.37%) Public Cloud
6 33 (5.84%) AI Agents
7 31 (5.49%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.01%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.83%) Augmented Reality
11 15 (2.65%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (2.30%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.95%) Blog
15 9 (1.59%) Educational Technology
15 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.59%) Taxonomies
16 8 (1.42%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.65%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Unix
4 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (60.71%) Roadmaps
2 242 (42.83%) Agile
3 166 (29.38%) Product Roadmap
4 152 (26.90%) AI
5 134 (23.72%) Decision-Making
6 133 (23.54%) Product Vision
7 120 (21.24%) Customer Experience
8 119 (21.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 113 (20.00%) User Stories
10 112 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 111 (19.65%) Product Backlog
12 98 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (15.40%) Software Engineering
14 85 (15.04%) Product Requirements
15 84 (14.87%) Analytics
16 81 (14.34%) Product Strategy
17 80 (14.16%) Sprint Planning
18 78 (13.81%) User Experience
19 75 (13.27%) Matrix Organization
20 72 (12.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.32%) Java
2 33 (5.84%) Python
3 13 (2.30%) SQL
3 13 (2.30%) TypeScript
4 12 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.59%) C++
6 6 (1.06%) Bicep
6 6 (1.06%) R
7 3 (0.53%) Bash
7 3 (0.53%) C#
7 3 (0.53%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.53%) PHP
7 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 131 (23.19%) Degree
2 35 (6.19%) Master's Degree
3 23 (4.07%) MBA
3 23 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.59%) HND
6 9 (1.59%) PhD
7 8 (1.42%) HNC
8 7 (1.24%) CSPO
8 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.24%) PMP
9 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.71%) CCNA
10 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.53%) CISSP
11 3 (0.53%) Dell Certification
11 3 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.55%) QA
2 23 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.59%) GDPR
4 7 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.24%) PMO
5 4 (0.71%) PERC
5 4 (0.71%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) DICOM
6 2 (0.35%) GRC
6 2 (0.35%) HL7
6 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.01%) Terraform
2 9 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.53%) WSUS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 58 (10.27%) Adobe
2 42 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.25%) Google
5 17 (3.01%) Facebook
5 17 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.12%) Workday
7 11 (1.95%) Cisco
8 10 (1.77%) Oracle
9 6 (1.06%) Juniper
10 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.53%) Aderant
12 3 (0.53%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.53%) iManage
12 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.53%) Reuters
12 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.53%) Starlink
12 3 (0.53%) VMware